Charlotte Dacre [née King] [Rosa Matilda]

(1782 c.-1825)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dacre, Charlotte, b. 1782 DNB: Byrne [née King], Charlotte [pseud. Charlotte Dacre] (1782?-1825), writer LBT ID: ChDacre1825 VIAF ID: 23386022 LOC ID: n50041565	B/BAP: 1782 DIED: 1825-11-07
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poetess, daughter of the radical writer John King; she published in the Morning Post and Morning Herald under the name “Rosa Matilda.” In 1815 she married Nicholas Byrne, owner and editor of the Morning Post.
REFERENCES TO Charlotte Dacre [née King] [Rosa Matilda]: Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 11 April 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 20 April 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) The Death of Shelley Found 1: ¶ n2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 27 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Childhood Found 1: ¶ 22 Shelley’s Juvenilia Found 1: ¶ 6 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 5